Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes:
> Yeah, I had a similar thought, but it just feels so hacky. Is there
> anything wrong with making this completely separate from the content
> update. I.e., just applying the pathspec to the index as a separate step
> and adding "+x" to each entry?
>
> This really is just a more convenient interface around "update-index
> --chmod", isn't it? We should be able to do the same thing it does.

Sure, the simplest and the most straight-forward way may look dumb,
but it would be the safest.